Silva Francisco J, Ten Hope Merritt I, Tucker Ali L
Department of Psychology, University of Redlands, P.O. Box 3080, 1200 East Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA, 92373, USA,
Learn Behav. 2014 Dec;42(4):337-47. doi: 10.3758/s13420-014-0151-0.
In an up-linkage replication, three experiments examined adult humans' folk physics, i.e., their naturally occurring and spontaneous understanding of the physical world, using a violation of expectation (VOE) task and stimuli similar to those used to study chimpanzees', monkeys', and rooks' folk physics. Unlike what has been reported with nonhuman primates, adult humans did not look longer at physically impossible than possible events, though they did rate the physically impossible events as more interesting and novel than the possible events. These results underscore that behavior during a VOE experiment has many possible causes, only one of which may be a subject's folk physics.
在一个上行复制实验中，三项实验使用违背预期（VOE）任务以及与用于研究黑猩猩、猴子和白嘴鸦的民间物理学相似的刺激，来检验成年人类的民间物理学，即他们对物理世界的自然产生和自发的理解。与非人类灵长类动物的情况不同，成年人类在物理上不可能的事件上的注视时间并不比可能的事件更长，尽管他们确实认为物理上不可能的事件比可能的事件更有趣、更新奇。这些结果强调，VOE实验中的行为有许多可能的原因，其中只有一个可能是受试者的民间物理学。
